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A good week for me, spent cycling in Shropshire, Herefordshire, Gwent and Powys. So plenty of beer from Hobsons, Three Tuns and Wye Valley, and the odd one or two from Ludlow, Swan, Rhymney and Felinfoel. Some highlights:

Best beer by far was Fixed Wheel Mild Concussion 5.5% at Arvon Ale House. Apparently the brewer is a keen cyclist, and it's almost as though he anticipated my slightly wobbly ride to the station to catch my train out of Llandrindod Wells - though a fall may well have led to something more than mild concussion, as I don't wear a helmet.

Quite a few good ones there but I'm going for the Northern Whisper Oppenchops, a new brewery to me and this was an excellent low ABV hoppy golden ale as tried for £2.90 in the Colne Tapsters Promise.
The 10.5% Blue Monkey one was a fiver for two halves in the Loughborough Organ Grinder. I wonder what it would have cost down South. Shame it was just a sweet barley wine.

Tonbridge-Traditional 3.6%abv:Earthy,farm yard hops.Spicy finish.What I look for in a Tonbridge beer.Apparently,I hadn't tried this before.
Pig and Porter-Skylarking 4% "Session IPA".Pale and hazy.Thin,not much condition.Tropical fruit.Much the same as the 'craft can' I'd drunk a few weeks back.

My BOTW-Tonbridge-Traditional.

"At that moment I would have given a kingdom, not for champagne or hock and soda, or hot coffee but for a glass of beer" Marquess Curzon of Kedlestone, Viceroy of India.